Doctors and health workers giving injections should have treatment for anaphylaxis at hand. Therefore each clinic room in the surgery should have easily accessible treatment and should be carried by staff giving injections in the community. Our bags are clearly marked, easily transported and automatically kept in date saving you the headache and staff time.

Patients still present these days in Primary Care with cardiac emergencies. As GPs we retain a duty of care. This pack enables the Primary Care Team to commence treatment with confidence and professionalism until the increasingly effective paramedics arrive.

In primary care where resuscitation facilities are rarely available prolonged febrile convulsions (those lasting more than 5 minutes) and status epilepticus can be treated safely and effectively with rectal Diazepam solution.

Patients present with early stages of Meningiococcal disease in primary care. Their treatment can be commenced swiftly with gpbags.co.uk whilst awaiting urgent transfer to hospital. This is reassuring to the patient, family and physician who can be assured that the in-date medication, dosing guidance and necessary equipment to start treatment are all at hand in this pack.

Arguably Naloxone should be carried by doctors who give Diamorphine. More likely, however, is overdose from illicit opioid use. With its relatively short half-life the bolus dose of Naloxone can be repeated. In this group of patients the iv route may be inaccessible making the im or sc route easier and safer (see Sporer et al: 'Out-of-hospital treatment of opioid overdoses in an urban setting' Acad Emerg Med 1996;3(7); 660-7).

For severe pain where you don't want to carry an opioid, this pack will treat rapidly severe pain from musculo-skeletal causes such as bony metastases, renal colic etc. Also in this pack are 3 antiemitics for parentral use where oral treatment has failed or is not appropriate.

This pack is useful in treating acutely distressed patients with primary mental illness or organic psychosis where oral medication has failed or is not practical. An example would be in the terminal care of a patient with psychosis or agitation due to metastatic brain disease.